Thank you for your participation in class yesterday, the issues that we started to consider are very important ones, and you likely left with more questions than answers (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing!). I have found a web resource … Continued
Thanks to the many ANTH 110 students who have been emailing me and sending interesting links and commentaries about this internet social movement/marketing phenomenon. Here are a few more resources that I am passing along that may be of interest … Continued
OK ANTH 110 students, here are some resources that I have collected today that you can use to get a more complete picture of what KONY 2012 is all about. The 30 minute video on Youtube has become the most … Continued
For those of you who didn’t get a paper copy of the revised course schedule and accompanying readings, I am posting it here for your convenience. Please note that the 100 Mile Diet assignment due date STAYS THE SAME, so dont … Continued
A segment of CBC’s The Current that aired yesterday may be of interest to many of you as we continue discussing sex, gender, and the interface between biology and cultural construction of identity. The series of interviewees offer a complex, … Continued
For those of you who are interested in seeing post-processual archaeology in action, or at least how it looks in the video produced for the visitor’s center at the Catalhuyuk museum, check out this link. I had intended on showing … Continued
The Canadian Journal of Medicine has called for a ban on disclosing the sex of an unborn child until well in to the third trimester of a pregnancy based on statistics that show skewed sex ratios amongst some of Canada’s ethnic … Continued
Many of you have heard about the recent state of emergency in Attawapiskat, a Cree-Ojibway communitycommunity on James Bay in Northern Ontario. In ANTH 104 this term we will be considering this example in the complex discussion of race, but … Continued
I read with interest this recent Globe and Mail editorial about the Canadian Government’s announcment regarding banning face veils at citizenship ceremonies. Perhaps even more interesting though was the torrent of comments at the end of the editorial. Based on … Continued
Here you go folks, as discussed in class today I have generated an outline for the ANTH 104 Final Exam F2011 that identifies all the material that is testable on the final exam (which is not cumulative). Good luck studying, and feel … Continued